A day after getting exposed to the Ebola virus, ten monkeys then received an Obeldesivir pill daily for ten days, while three control monkeys received no treatment and died. The study found that ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

Tanzania declares the end of the Marburg virus outbreak, but Africa continues to battle rising health crises, including ...

The foreign aid program has been one of the country's best defenses against emerging infectious diseases. Without it, we are ...

In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania ...

Ebola Spreads to the Capital. The Africa CDC noted that the new cluster has no direct epidemiological link to a previous ...

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania ...

KAMPALA, Uganda -- A 4-year-old child became the second person to die this year of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health ...

Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, teams that ...